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http://www.mikebrotherton.com/ - Science and Science Fiction
I’ve been busy the last week or so revising a grant proposal for the National Science Foundation. I finally finished yesterday, and am relaxing a little. It’s fine to work hard, and it’s fine to take a breather in between. I have a lot to catch up, and if you’ve been ...
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astronomy
I have a grant proposal eating my life right now, and snow, and a friend to get at the airport tomorrow. I’m clearing my plate a little posting some starlinks.
If 195os engineers redesigned the human body . I’m a little split between this being cool and stupid. I report. You ...
Books
Brian Lumley
Busy today with a grant proposal and meetings with students. Wanted to sneak in quickly to share a few links.
Curvy women may be a clever bet . There’s been a study suggesting that voluptuous women are on average brighter than waifs, and that they also have brighter children. So if ...
TV
The Prisoner
Fox News has posted and article about the Vatican holding an astrobiology conference in order to help determine what the existence of alien life might mean for the Catholic church.
Might as well just have a conference on what reality means to the church. Alien life is likely, and either ...
Film
Alien
astronomy
These were supposed to be for Sunday, but we had a database error last night. Sorry if you tried to visit then. But there are some awesome links in here, I think.
New Stephen King short story online at the New Yorker .
Really cool moon maps .
Even cooler Martian landscapes . Amazing.
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astronomy
mikebrotherton.com - 16 days ago
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We’ll keep with the “S” theme as this
post today is related to yesterday’s. Apparently a group
is trying to start up a “ Carl Sagan Day ” on Saturday, November 7th, which would have been his 75th anniversary. ...
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Scientists, Sagan, Sincerity
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mikebrotherton.com - 17 days ago
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Sometimes synchronicty strikes, and you see a bunch
of things related to each other by chance. Well,
usually not exactly by chance, but it seems that way. For today, let’s just say that I’m always interested in why smart people do dumb ...
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Smarts, Sponteniety, Science, and Science Fiction
It has been a long, tiring, and fun Halloween weekend. The party was a success, although everything didn’t get done in time. Most things did and no one seemed to care everything wasn’t as perfect as I wanted it. My temporary roommate, Dan Kiminki, was incredibly helpful in ...
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I’ve just been swamped with party preparations this week, which involved finishing off a lot of rennovations, so not much time for blogging. It’s down to the last few hours and there’s still a long list of things to do. Wish I had an army of the undead to help out…
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OK, I’m a hard science fiction guy, and read more sf than fantasy. I like to read fantasy on occasion and I wanted to share one I am really loving in a way that I haven’t loved a fantasy in a long time: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It started a bit slow and ...
TV
Patrick Stewart
I was very busy and tired over the weekend attending Mile Hi Con down in Denver. There was some bad weather on the way back, some accidents on the highway, and some bad drivers. If you’re waiting to hear back from me, between the convention, house remodeling, preparing for the Halloweek ...
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I finished a starlinks post a few minutes go and hit publish, and the stupid ass wordpress goes to the login screen, as I had been logged off at some point, and the post was lost. Damn it. I hate that kind of thing. And I made the mistake of closing my links as I went instead of waiting ...
